The Director General of The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has suggested there is evidence that this could be the case. “DeepSeek falls into the category of AI companies choosing to scrape the internet’s content, including the world’s copyright protected music, [and] use it for commercial purposes, without a license from rightholders and creators,” ICMP Director General John Phelan wrote in a LinkedIn post. Source: Is DeepSeek training its AI on copyrighted music without permission?